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National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
Contact: NCC News, 212-870-2227
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1999 YEARBOOK AN INVALUABLE TOOL FOR LOCAL CHURCH MINISTRY

 NEW YORK, March 5 ---- The 1999 Yearbook of American 
and Canadian Churches is a valuable resource for local 
church ministry, as well as for researchers and scholars, 
denominational and ecumenical leaders, seminary and public 
libraries, journalists - in short, anyone who has anything 
to do with religion.

 Here are just some ways that local ministries can use 
the 1999 Yearbook:

* You want to send relief to disaster victims in another 
state.  You locate the name and contact numbers of that 
state's ecumenical or interfaith council, which tells you 
what's needed and where.

* You want to establish or update your youth ministry.  You 
can make contact with 40 ecumenical agencies who can provide 
information on what works.  The 1999 Yearbook includes a 
similar index to homelessness/shelter ministries, interfaith 
dialogue and faith and order.

* You want to help a young church member pursue a vocational 
call.  The Yearbook provides a complete listing of schools 
and seminaries with denominational affiliations along with 
many interdenominational seminaries.

* You want to increase per capita giving in your church.  
The Yearbook provides the pattern in your denomination and 
in others.

* You are looking for help with church management, 
liturgical renewal, church growth and evangelism, justice 
and relief ministries, stewardship, conference management or 
any number of ministry-related needs.  You thumb through the 
Yearbook's directory of U.S. and Canadian cooperative 
organizations for sources of help.

* You want to plan an interfaith event.  The Yearbook 
calendar helps you avoid a conflict with Islamic, Jewish - 
even holy days of other Christian streams.

 The 1999 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches is 
published by Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tenn., and available 
for U.S.$35 (including shipping) through the NCC's 
Friendship Press (212-870-2496) and at local bookstores 
across the United States and Canada.

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